Thread: Trailer WOF upcoming. What to expect?

Originally Posted by woods223

[fine wasn't to bad but the demerits along with the usual speeding ones made loss of licence a probability.]

Just be aware that at FAL renewal time this may well be a topic of discussion, at least it seems to in Marlborough/Nelson area. Twice now this has come up at referee question time for me. “Do you believe applicant is a law abiding individual?” then referenced demerit points/traffic offences. Fuken little hitler cunts.

"I am not aware of..." "To the best of my knowledge..."

Originally Posted by tac a1

Really?? Thats hardly relevant. Anyone can get a ticket for a couple of kays over the speed limit. That isn't an indication that the have criminal tendencies or are dishonest and shouldn't have a FA licence.

Thats an extreme view.

Yup, but people keep commenting that this is the sort of questions they get. I'm not sure what the end goal is for the line of questioning though, as it really does seem to stick with a lot of applicants that the people interviewing them are quite retentive with some of their questioning. The last lady I had interview me as a referee was brilliant though to be fair - took 1.5 hours at least if not more but she was thorough, fair and even gave me a few bits of advice re what she knew of the re-licencing and what could possibly save me a bit of money going forwards. Cannot complain!

Originally Posted by No.3

Zinc it spray paint. Cures a world of ills re painted rust repairs... Wire buff the old galv and rust off, chemically treat the steel and remaining corrosion and then hit it with the treatment coat and allow to dry. Then zinc-it with two or three coats, and if VTNZ fail it it will be due to them disliking all galv finishes. Which is not out of the question...

As I've already naively painted it with "fail me instantly" gloss black, would coating over the black with Zinc It help the cause? Or is it still too obvious that I'm potentially hiding something. Think I'm gonna have to weld over some of the worst pitted spots as a starting point. Anyway, I'll take it for the WOF and see what they say. Not VTNZ though obviously. Never take my car there. Trailer no different.

Originally Posted by tac a1

Really?? Thats hardly relevant. Anyone can get a ticket for a couple of kays over the speed limit. That isn't an indication that the have criminal tendencies or are dishonest and shouldn't have a FA licence.

Thats an extreme view.

I was asked about speeding/parking at my last renewal in 2017, they didn't even talk to my referees

Originally Posted by No good names left

I was asked about speeding/parking at my last renewal in 2017, they didn't even talk to my referees

Careful with that one - had a couple of people now that have had their referees re-interviewed and the status of their licence queried due to that issue. Part of the confidence checking that everything was done correctly at that time - could be worth dropping the new firearms licensing MP a note because it adds to the list of issues that have gone on with firearms licensing in the past...

Originally Posted by Pepo1

As I've already naively painted it with "fail me instantly" gloss black, would coating over the black with Zinc It help the cause? Or is it still too obvious that I'm potentially hiding something. Think I'm gonna have to weld over some of the worst pitted spots as a starting point. Anyway, I'll take it for the WOF and see what they say. Not VTNZ though obviously. Never take my car there. Trailer no different.

You need to have a look at how deep the pitting is - anything deeper than 10% over an area is cause to suspect what the structure is like overall, I would consider if you can get to the area easily enough putting a small hole through a pit to check for material thickness before chamfering and spot welding it up. Take photo's of what you've done, the painting as you've noted just shows that there's been work done not what was done and the reason for the work. Zinc it tends to look like a coating repair rather than a bodge job - although if they haven't detailed exactly what the cause for the WOF failure is then that's slack as f. They should have marked the areas of concern with a paint marker and had it rectified spot by spot with photo's at their end to verify the repair.

I've had one trailer failed through corrosion, went and had a look with the guy and he had seen some blown galvanising which was poorly adhered to the structure and had lifted off as a sheet. I knocked the entire piece of galv off and said where's the corrosion? The inspector had to pass me as there wasn't any - just some surface rust on the steel box section. He didn't really know what to say from that point on and gave me the warrant - it wasn't a 'failure' item as such but as I said to him it definitely needed to be noted on the WOF sheet for remediation as the trailer would have rusted out in the next two WOFs if not the next one...

Trailer WOF is a complete ripoff. They check the lights, jack up and spin the wheels and poke any rust. Pretty much that is it and then charge a fortune for it.